Science, Innovation, and Society: What Have We Learnt from the COVID-19 Pandemic?
The COVID-19 pandemic sent alarm bells ringing throughout the world. This pandemic led the world to confront the glaring gaps in the realm of public health and medicine. While the world witnessed great socio-political and economic turbulence during this pandemic, there was also a renewal of trust in science and experts. The public turned to experts in these times of crisis, and there was an acknowledgement of the necessity for scholars and experts in dealing with the pandemic.
Jeremy Farrar talked about the lessons we learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ways in which the role of medicine and healthcare were conceptualized anew in society.
About the Medical Researcher
Jeremy Farrar is Director of the Wellcome Trust—a politically and financially independent global charitable foundation that exists to fund science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone. Jeremy is a clinician scientist who, before joining Wellcome, was the Director of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Viet Nam for eighteen years. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences UK, the National Academies USA, the European Molecular Biology Organisation and a Fellow of The Royal Society. Farrar was knighted in the Queen’s 2018 New Year Honours for services to Global Health.
